Indian cricket and Dada

At last Sourav Ganguly (dada) is getting the chance to come back to the highest earning cricket team in the world. Well that is the best I can praise this team. The money they make is by no means an indicator of their performance. This team just reminds me of the state of business in India for so many years till the Indian economy opened up since 1991. You keep protecting an ill performing organization for any amount of time, there is no scope for such an organization improving. Applying the same principle to this cricket team you should have shut down this business a long ago.

The point most difficult to understand is that how can such a pathetically performing team can earn the most by such a huge margin over the second best Australian team. There are so many sponsors running behind to put their money on. Real Madrid lost a lot of sponsors since they started the current stint of ill-performance. Applying the logic Indians never started performing, still the money started pouring in this absolute waste of time – cricket. (I’ll elaborate on this opinion of mine in some other blog, bear with me!)

There was the time when John Wright retired as coach to Indian team, when dada was leading the side. Then came the nuisance called Greg Chappell. The first thing he did with a well performing, rather the best performing team for a long time is that he chopped and changed around it. They say in US, “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.” That’s what he did. He tried to better the best. There were ill performing players including the ‘Prince of Calcutta’ himself, but the problem was not limited to him only. Rather he was solution to many other problems and undoubtedly he was the best motivator on the field. Instead of locating all the problems together Chappell pinpointed and played the politics with dada. There was a time when Sachin and dada together had made 16 opening partnerships of more than hundred runs, better than any other pair in the world. With the entry of the crap called Sehwag this stint was terminated. (I can never accept Sehwag as a batsman, just does not fit in definition.) Now as the crap is out of team I hope the sense prevails and sachin and dada come back with their previous form.

Another point I feel for dada is that he seems to be more matured and avoiding all the controversies altogether. If he just keeps doing it, there is a good chance that he would be leading the side, in the light of his motivational qualities and experience. May god bless dada. Amen!